How to say it in Chinese

Girl in Chinese

girl · HSK 2

女孩 nǚ hái

  1. 女 nǚ woman
  2. 孩 hái child

Counted with 个: 一个女孩 yí gè nǚhái

她是一个很聪明的女孩。 She is a very smart girl.

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Other ways to say girl

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How do you say girl in Chinese?

Girl in Chinese is 女孩 (nǚ hái). You can also say 女孩儿 (nǚ hái r), 姑娘 (gū niang), 妹妹 (mèi mei), 女生 (nǚ shēng).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.